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Emissions are putting species in lethal danger

31 Aug 2015

Scientists warn that lizards, coral reefs and forests are all seriously under threat unless agreement is reached to reduce drastically fossil fuel emissions.

We can turn CO2 in the air into new materials

31 Aug 2015

What if there were a way to suck carbon dioxide right out of the air and turn it into useful products? It might seem fantastic but scientists have actually proved it’s possible.

Nelson talkfest to get serious about contaminants

24 Aug 2015

Business, government and academic global leaders gather in Nelson this week to talk about the environmental impacts of manufactured contaminants.

China’s carbon count is not as high as feared

24 Aug 2015

The use of poor-quality coal in Chinese power plants means that the carbon dioxide emissions of the world’s biggest polluter are 10% less than previously thought.

If we want to eat tuna, we need to learn how to share

24 Aug 2015

Amid growing demand for seafood, gas and other resources drawn from the world’s oceans, and growing stresses from climate change, QUENTIN HANICH examines some of the challenges and solutions for developing 'the blue economy' in smarter, more sustainable ways.

Time to tap an underused energy source: wasted heat

24 Aug 2015

Millions of people worldwide can’t afford to keep their homes warm, but few realise the heat wasted in our energy system could provide the answer.

Heads together ... Anzac leaders John Key and Tony Abbott.

Climate expert gives Anzacs a fail mark

17 Aug 2015

Australia has set a post-2020 emissions reduction target as poor as that of New Zealand.

Sydney ... the heat is on.

Frustrated Sydney gets climate act together

17 Aug 2015

Sydney is acting to protect itself against heat waves, floods, storms and energy shortages as a result of climate change.

Why promoting green ways in Africa might be bad

17 Aug 2015

Inadequate infrastructure is widely recognised to be holding back Africa’s development and lowering the quality of life of its citizens.

Extreme weather puts Africa's food security at risk

17 Aug 2015

A British government scientific panel says increasingly frequent heat waves, droughts and other extreme weather threaten more – and more severe – global food crises.

Added gene can make rice more climate-friendly

17 Aug 2015

Scientists discover a way to boost production of the grain that billions rely on for food – and reduce its damaging emissions of methane.

Professor Jean-Pascal van Ypersele ... full of hope.

World doesn't have time for pessimism, says IPCC man

10 Aug 2015

IPCC deputy chair Professor Jean-Pascal van Ypersele says he hasn’t got time to be pessimistic about whether the world will take action to avoid catastrophic climate change.

How the rotor blades look installed in a tidal fence configuration.

Revolutionary fence is set to trap the sea’s power

10 Aug 2015

A British company has announced plans for an array of unique marine turbines that can operate in shallower and slower-moving water than current designs.

Here’s how we can save the car – and the planet

10 Aug 2015

Passenger cars are still the most popular transportation mode. In 2014, nearly 68m were produced globally.

‘Peak car’ means UK might get much closer to carbon targets than it realised

10 Aug 2015

Cars are one of the biggest threats to the planet. The transport sector accounts for more than 60% of global oil consumption and about a quarter of energy-related carbon emissions, and it’s seen as harder to decarbonise than other parts of the economy.

Polar ice may melt faster and heat transfer from the tropics shut down.

Half of climate safety level has gone, say scientists

3 Aug 2015

Global temperatures have risen by 1°C in the past 150 years, and scientists say doubling that level could unleash catastrophic sea level rise this century.

Campaigners try to make their voices heard at a fossil fuels disinvestment march in Ireland.

Fossil fuel industry still winning the investment war

3 Aug 2015

The campaign to convince investors not to use their money to support the extraction and use of fossil fuels is failing to gain enough converts, experts say.

Pink productivity ... Hutt Lagoon, Western Ayustralia, is the world’s largest algae farm.

Sustainable oil from algae: the technology is ready, but what about the politics?

3 Aug 2015

Ultimately, all of the oil we use to power our modern lives comes from living creatures such as algae – albeit ones that lived 3.5 billion years ago, before gradually morphing into fossil fuel.

South Australia’s McLaren Vale is leading the way in adapting to climate change, but the future for vineyards is still uncertain.

Message in a bottle: wine industry gives farmers a taste of what's to come

3 Aug 2015

Wine seems to be a handy way to galvanise concerns about the future ill-effects of climate change.

local government, city residents can actually address poor air quality, all while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Why cities are a rare good news story in climate change

27 Jul 2015

The visit last week of 65 mayors to the Vatican to discuss climate change, among other things, reflects the central role of cities in debates that for too long took place only at the global and national level.

Soil maps could help show the way for farmers

27 Jul 2015

Detailed soil maps of farms could reduce nitrate leaching and help to improve food production, a Lincoln University report suggests.

Dams create huge reservoirs for hydropower plants in Norway.

Norway pumps up 'green battery' plan for Europe

27 Jul 2015

Norway is hoping to become the “green battery of Europe” by using its hydropower plants to provide instant extra electricity if production from wind and solar power sources in other countries fade.

Japan signs up for geothermal classes

20 Jul 2015

New Zealand and Japan will work together on geothermal energy research.

John Howard is a role model for the Abbott government, but the world remembers his hardline climate tactics in 1997 less fondly.

Australia hit its Kyoto target, but it was more a three-inch putt than a hole in one

20 Jul 2015

In the saga of mendacity that is the climate policy debate, no claim has been more audacious than the one now being told by the federal government about Australia’s “success” in meeting its Kyoto emissions target.

St Andrews is green – but is it environmentally friendly?

Eco-friendly golf means not worrying if the grass is greener on the other course

20 Jul 2015

The Open Championship has returned to St Andrews, one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious golf courses and one that has been recognised for its commitment to sustainability.

Extreme water stress and competition for productive land could lead to conflict.

Climate threat as grave a risk as nuclear war, say scientists

20 Jul 2015

The risks of climate change are comparable to those posed by nuclear conflict, says a new report.

Professor Bill Hare ... fail mark for NZ.

'Failed' NZ could be walking into trap at Paris climate summit

13 Jul 2015

New Zealand could be in trouble with its post-2020 emissions reduction target if the world doesn’t allow us to continue to use creative accounting to meet our obligations, international scientists are warning.

Pink salmon is one of the species jeopardised by the impact of carbon dioxide emissions.

Why climate change could knock seafood off the menu

13 Jul 2015

Pink salmon – the smallest and most abundant of the Pacific salmon species, and a supper table mainstay in many parts of the world – may be swimming toward trouble.

How long before you ditch your car for a driverless electric taxi?

13 Jul 2015

Trend-spotters may have declared the car is dead for 20-somethings in central London or Paris but among the rest of humanity sales of the ubiquitous gas-guzzler continue to climb.

The role bumblebees play as plant pollinators is vital in providing food for humans and wildlife.

Warming planet heightens plight of the bumblebee

13 Jul 2015

By TIM RADFORD.- Scientists warn that human intervention may be needed to protect bees as climate change overheats their southern habitat range.

What fly ash looks like after being stored in an ash dam.

Science breaks new ground in converting coal ash from pollutant to useful products

13 Jul 2015

South Africa has large coal reserves. It mainly burns coal to produce electricity at 13 existing coal-burning power plants, situated mainly in Mpumalanga, a province in the country’s east.

Dr James Renwick ... leadership timid.

11% cut ... follow us down the path to catastrophe

8 Jul 2015

New Zealand will face droughts, floods, fires, social upheaval and catastrophic global economic damage if the world follows the country’s lead on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, says one of our leading climate experts.

Dr Janet Stephenson ... we're vulnerable.

Best brains tell the story ... but will the Government act?

6 Jul 2015

Will the Government order Treasury to prepare an analysis of the economic, environmental and social risks posed by climate change?

Nigel Brunel ... we're in an ideal position

We could still be a carbon leader, says trader

6 Jul 2015

It’s not too late for New Zealand to become an international carbon trading hub, says pioneer carbon trader Nigel Brunel.

Is palm oil the scourge of the earth, or a wonder crop?

6 Jul 2015

If you happen to mention palm oil to most people outside of Asia you are unlikely to get a particularly positive reaction.

Fossil diatoms from marine sediments: their descendants reject rising CO2.

Greenhouse gas-guzzlers might spurn extra carbon dioxide

6 Jul 2015

Diatoms – tiny ocean-dwelling photosynthesisers that produce a fifth of the planet’s oxygen each year – may not gulp down more carbon dioxide more enthusiastically as greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere continue to rise.

Robert Redford ... it's pretty clear something is happening.

Q&A: Robert Redford tells us what he told the UN General Assembly

6 Jul 2015

The climate change crisis involves action from every country, every nation and every person, actor and environmental activist Robert Redford told the United Nations last week.

Findhorn Ecovillage in Scotland.

If everyone lived in an ecovillage, the Earth would still be in trouble

29 Jun 2015

We are used to hearing that if everyone lived in the same way as North Americans or Australians, we would need four or five planet Earths to sustain us.

Rwanda faces energy isues and renewable energy in rural parts of the country is vital for healthcare.

How Rwanda’s clinics have gone off-grid and on to renewable energy

29 Jun 2015

Rwanda is located in the poorest region in the world, sub-Saharan Africa. Despite this, it is making advances with off-grid renewable energy solutions for rural areas that could be a model for similar economies.

Dr Charles Merfield ... the shift has started.

We must act now to save farming industry, says expert

22 Jun 2015

Billions of dollars worth of research and on-farm advisers are needed to prepare the New Zealand farming sector for the massive shift to sustainable agriculture, an expert is warning.

Food stalls at a market in Kamuli, eastern Uganda.

Rise in CO2 could restrict growing days for crops

22 Jun 2015

While plants in temperate zones may benefit from higher temperatures, global warming’s impact in the tropics threatens catastrophe for food security.

Sunrise on another baking hot day in southern India, where temperatures have reached 47° this year.

India blames heatwave deaths on climate change

22 Jun 2015

Fierce temperatures in India doubled the heat-related deaths normally recorded in May − and the government insists natural causes are not to blame.

A woman trapped on the roof of her car during a flash flood in Queensland.

Australia faces stormy future as temperatures soar

15 Jun 2015

Destructive storms and sudden floods are set to intensify across Australia as global warming plays havoc with rainfall patterns.

What if jet fuel could be grown sustainably?

Desert farms could power flight with sunshine and seawater

15 Jun 2015

The aviation industry is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. In 2011 aviation contributed around 3% of Australia’s emissions. Despite improvements in efficiency, global aviation emissions are expected to grow 70% by 2020 from 2005.

Gary Taylor ... intelligent approach.

Lobby group wants think tank to set emissions target

8 Jun 2015

An environmental lobby group is calling for a cross-sector working group on New Zealand’s post-2020 emissions reduction target.

Apollo plan asks for the moon in switch to renewables

8 Jun 2015

The vision is simple, the cost would be eye-watering, and the result could stop the growing threat from burning fossil fuels in its tracks.

India has been sweltering recently – but plants can cope better than people.

How modern crops can ensure food security in a heatwave

8 Jun 2015

India’s heatwave again highlights just how seriously extreme weather conditions threaten our ability to put sufficient nutritious food on all our plates.

You Shell not pass.

Shell can’t afford to wait until 2050 to adapt its business to climate change

2 Jun 2015

Shell’s recent AGM was tumultuous. Shareholders voted overwhelmingly for the company to report on whether its activities were compatible with promised government action on climate change.

Coffee is one of Africa’s major exports.

Coffee drinkers beware, your brew will change with the climate

2 Jun 2015

We have known for some time that coffee is a climate-sensitive crop. Now we have the first global evidence that increasing minimum, or night-time, temperatures are having the hardest impact on your daily brew.

Group sits down to settle cod question

2 Jun 2015

Consultation on new proposals to manage the blue cod fishery in the Marlborough Sounds start today.

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An Indigenous activist during demonstrations at the COP28 opening in Dubai, 2023.

UN limits staff at COP30 climate summit over accommodation concerns

Today 11:45am

High hotel prices for Brazil's COP30 climate summit in November have prompted the United Nations to urge its staff to limit attendance, while government delegations are still scrambling to find rooms within their budgets.

Agriculture
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Govt passes law to limit farm-to-forest conversions

Today 11:45am

By Shannon Morris-Williams | The Government has passed legislation intended to limit farm-to-forest conversions in the Emissions Trading Scheme, with ministers saying the changes “restore balance,” while opponents call it a band-aid that risks climate targets.

Airlines
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NZ needs to be part of a regional SAF strategy: Z, Air NZ

9 Sep 2025

By Pattrick Smellie | New Zealand needs to be part of a regional strategic approach to sourcing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), with domestic production less the aim than ensuring access to the fuel from one of a number of strategically positioned bio-refineries around the world.

Aviation
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Lord Adair Turner

'Non-negotiable' – EU carbon pricing to hit Kiwi exporters, expert warns

11 Sep 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | High carbon exports will inevitably face a high carbon tax at the EU border, possibly in the next five years, and high methane agricultural products might not be exempt, an international expert told a local audience yesterday.

Biodiversity
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UK foreign aid for nature hits £800m record due to cash for carbon credits

Tue 16 Sep 2025

The UK’s climate-aid spending on “nature protection and restoration” reached record levels of nearly £800m last year, according to government figures obtained by Carbon Brief.

Biofuels
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Researchers say sealing old oil wells with bio-oil from crop waste is a dual carbon-removal solution

Today 11:45am

A new analysis shows that oil made from corn husks, wood chips, and other waste could plug greenhouse gas-belching abandoned oil wells while sequestering carbon for about $152 per ton.

Carbon Credits
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Carbon price steady after failed quarterly auction

Tue 16 Sep 2025

By Liz Kivi | The carbon price has continued to trade in its familiar moribund range in the high $50s following last week’s failed quarterly auction, with ample supply still trading on the secondary market at about $10 below this year’s $68 auction floor.

Carbon News world
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EU set to miss UN deadline for new target under Paris climate accord

Today 11:45am

The delay is intended to allow countries more time to agree to an ambitious goal.

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Depositphotos

No bidders front to carbon auction - again

10 Sep 2025

By Liz Kivi | Today’s quarterly carbon auction was a non-event yet again, making it the third consecutive auction this year with no bidders, with the secondary market price still limping along at nearly 20% below the auction floor.

Coal
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Industry struggles with double-digit power price hikes

Mon 15 Sep 2025

As power prices surge by double-digit amounts for the second year in a row, industrial users can’t keep absorbing cost increases, the Major Electricity Users’ Group says.

Comment
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The merchants of doubt are back

3 Sep 2025

OPINION: If you don’t follow climate policy closely, you might not know that the Trump administration is launching an effort to overturn one of the most fundamental pillars of American climate policy.

Construction
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Electric Arc Furnace in action at North Star BlueScope

Milestone for NZ Steel electrification

10 Sep 2025

By Pattrick Smellie | NZ Steel has passed an installation milestone for its new electric arc furnace, which will reduce emissions from the Glenbrook steel mill site by as much as one megatonne (1Mt) a year.

COP
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RMA to speed up fossil fuel consents

18 Aug 2025

By Liz Kivi | An energy lobby group has welcomed a last-minute amendment to the RMA that puts fossil fuels on the same footing as renewables, however a sustainable energy expert says the move “beggars belief.”

Emissions trading
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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Energy and Climate Change Minister Simon Watts speaking to media.

Watts not considering removing electricity from ETS

Tue 16 Sep 2025

Energy and Climate Change Minister, Simon Watts, says he is “not currently considering” removing electricity generation from the Emissions Trading Scheme, as proposed by NZ First Minister Shane Jones.

Energy
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Energy Minister Simon Watts

Gentailers told to behave as ministers weigh Frontier review

Wed 17 Sep 2025

The chief executives of Contact, Meridian, Mercury and Genesis met Energy and Climate Change Minister Simon Watts on Thursday for their regular monthly session.

Extinction
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Declining sea-ice is altering Antarctic food webs

11 Sep 2025

A new study shows a significant change in Antarctic phytoplankton over time that could cascade through the marine food web and affect the ocean’s capacity as a carbon sink.

Extreme weather
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Lobby group launches ‘blueprint’ for ocean management reform

Thu 18 Sep 2025

The Environmental Defence Society yesterday released its plan to tackle widespread ecological decline in our oceans.

Fishing
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Marginal drop in last year's regional emissions

27 Aug 2025

Regional greenhouse gas emissions were down slightly last year, with a fall in gas supply leading to a big drop in Taranaki, but more coal burnt leading to higher emissions in Waikato, according to new figures from Stats NZ

Forestry
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Australia leapfrogs NZ on climate ambition

Today 11:45am

By Liz Kivi | Lawyers for Climate Action say Australia’s new 2035 climate target should be a wake-up call for ‘clean, green’ New Zealand.

Gas
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Wildervank Station at the Groningen gas field.

Exxon and Shell sue the Netherlands in secret tribunals for closing Europe’s biggest gas field

Today 11:45am

Following billions in profits and over a thousand gas extraction-related earthquakes, the oil and gas giants filed claims against the Dutch state in four separate investor-state disputes concerning compensation for home damages and the permanent closure of the Groningen gas field.

Geothermal
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Geothermal power station near Taupō

A modest geothermal strategy

31 Jul 2025

By Pattrick Smellie | The Government has unveiled a far more modest geothermal energy strategy than its primary backer, Resources Minister Shane Jones, had sought.

Green finance
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Why mega-polluters have little to fear from the European Central Bank and its new climate policy

12 Sep 2025

The European Central Bank plans to raise borrowing costs for climate offenders – but a new FTM analysis shows that big polluters such as Shell will barely feel it.

Greenhouse Effect
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Science cuts will hold back climate research

Wed 17 Sep 2025

By Liz Kivi | A crisis in government-backed science funding is worsening, with dire implications for climate research in New Zealand, according to experts from the scientific community.

Greenwashing
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Media round-up

5 Sep 2025

In our round-up of climate coverage in local media: The great methane debate; law change scuppers legal challenge to irrigation scheme consent; and what are the energy and climate implications of the $7.5 billion Amazon Web Services data centre deal?

Hydro power
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Coal imports up 650%

12 Sep 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams and Liz Kivi | Coal imports are up 650% as generators stockpile the most polluting fossil fuel ahead of next winter.

Hydrogen
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Hiringa chief executive Andrew Clennett

Hiringa eyes green methanol plant near Whanganui

29 Jul 2025

By Pattrick Smellie | Green hydrogen pioneer Hiringa Energy is deep in planning to develop an “eight-to-nine figure” methanol plant near Whanganui, using a combination of biomass and hydrogen produced using renewable energy.

Insurance
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Simon Watts has promised better access to hazard data for homeowners

Media round-up

29 Aug 2025

In our round-up of climate coverage in local media: Changes to road user charges will increase New Zealand's emissions; Climate Change Minister Simon Watts promises better access to hazard data for homeowners; and Kiwis borrow over $1 billion in ‘green loans’ for heat pumps and electric cars.

Kyoto
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Will NZ walk away from the Paris Agreement?

20 Dec 2024

By Geoff Bertram | COMMENT: Unless the government can find very cheap offshore mitigation, the temptation to walk away from its Paris Agreement obligations may well be too strong to resist for a coalition government focused on fiscal austerity.

Litigation
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Young activists won a landmark state climate trial. Now they’re challenging Trump’s orders

Thu 18 Sep 2025

Young climate activists and their attorneys who won a landmark global warming trial against the state of Montana are trying to convince a federal judge to block President Donald Trump’s executive orders promoting fossil fuels.

Low carbon
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Forest carbon stores massive blind spot - study

4 Sep 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | Aotearoa New Zealand’s planted forests hold significant deep soil organic carbon — with over half of it stored below 30 cm, and much of it over 1,000 years old.

Mining
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Govt tweaks offshore energy bill with 'declared areas' model

Wed 17 Sep 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | The Government is making changes to the Offshore Renewable Energy Bill to address offshore wind developers' concerns about competing for space with other industries.

NZ Market Report
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NZ's latest climate target 'weak' – Climate Action Tracker

24 Jun 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | New Zealand's new international climate target to 2035 is weak, and could even allow for higher emissions than the 2030 target, according to a global scientific project that tracks government climate action.

Oceans
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A steady ocean pattern just failed for the first time ever observed

Wed 17 Sep 2025

The failure of the Gulf of Panama’s seasonal upwelling system has left scientists wondering what happens next.

Paris Agreement
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Australia's 2035 climate targets on path to net zero judged by the experts

Today 11:45am

After much anticipation, Australia has set its new climate targets: a reduction of 62 to 70 per cent within the next 10 years.

Plastics
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‘Plastic Cup’ competitions are cleaning up rivers in Hungary

1 Sep 2025

Afloat on DIY boats, teams of volunteers have removed over 450 tons of plastic waste from the Danube and its tributaries.

Policy development
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Can certificates solve NZ's heavy vehicle emissions problem?

Thu 18 Sep 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | The Sustainable Business Council has launched a new framework for a national system to cut freight emissions.

Politics
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Climate change collaboration and competition law

Thu 18 Sep 2025

By Pattrick Smellie | The revamped competition law regime needs to be able to take into account the benefits of companies that collaborate for action on climate change, says the panel that reviewed both the Commerce Commission and the Commerce Act.

Protest
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Underestimating support for climate action limits political decision making, study says

8 Sep 2025

Research reveals huge disparity between perceived and actual willingness of public to contribute to fixing climate.

Rare earth minerals
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New Zealand Minerals Council chief executive Josie Vidal

Straterra has a new name: the New Zealand Minerals Council

16 Apr 2025

Media release | Straterra has been renamed as New Zealand Minerals Council, says chief executive Josie Vidal.

Renewable energy
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One city’s race to ‘solarise everything we possibly can’

Thu 18 Sep 2025

Bordeaux is quickly transforming itself into France’s top solar-powered city, banking on innovations like transparent panels that preserve its historic architecture.

Tax
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Climate groups want UK wealth tax to make super-rich fund sustainable economy

17 Jul 2025

Growing number of campaigners urge government to ensure green investment is not done ‘on backs of the poor’.

Technology
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Ara Ake backs 13 projects to unlock NZ’s energy flexibility

11 Sep 2025

Media release | Ara Ake has approved over $600,000 in funding from the National Flex Discovery Fund for 13 flexibility service providers (FSPs).

The House
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Resources Minister Shane Jones

Last minute change to oil and gas legislation over cleanup costs

31 Jul 2025

By Liz Kivi | The government is expected to repeal the oil and gas ban today, with a last-minute amendment handing discretionary power to two ministers over the controversial issue of decommissioning.

Transport
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Most EU carmakers on track to meet emission targets: study

10 Sep 2025

Almost all European carmakers are on track to meet EU emission targets after winning a reprieve this year as electric vehicles (EV) sales pick up, a study showed.

Waste
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Patrick Moynahan, CEO of Echo Tech

Echo Tech secures growth investment to tackle NZ's e-waste crisis

Mon 15 Sep 2025

Media release | Echo Tech Limited, New Zealand’s leading provider of e-waste recycling and IT asset recovery services, is proud to announce a strategic investment from growth equity firm Altered Capital.

Water
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Meridian Energy water level guage at Lake Tekapo

La Niña set to prolong NZ hydro shortfall

9 Sep 2025

By Shannon Morris-Williams | With La Niña favouring a drier-than-normal spring across much of the South Island, hydro lakes are unlikely to recover without substantial rain and late snowmelt – keeping national storage levels below average.

Wildfires
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Record UK wildfires have burned an area twice the size of Glasgow in 2025

12 Aug 2025

Wildfires have scorched more than 40,000 hectares of land so far this year across the UK – an area more than twice the size of the Scottish city of Glasgow.

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Which countries are scaling solar and wind the fastest?

12 Sep 2025

The leaderboard is quite different depending on what metric you look at.

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